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The Trail-Blazer

on BBC Radio 3

George Russell has composed much radical and dynamic music. In the first of eight programmes, Ian Can-concentrates on Russell's early days in New York during the late 1940s, when he co-wrote Cubana Be
Cubana Bop with Dizzy Gillespie. Between periods in hospital, Russell also wrote music for Lee Konitz ,
Miles Davis and Buddy DeFranco. Producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

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George Russell
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Dizzy Gillespie.
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Lee Konitz
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Miles Davis
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Buddy Defranco.
Producer:
Derek Drescher

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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